Article March 14, 1994 Issue

No clashes in God

Love that has its basis in God and in spirituality is able to eliminate clashes and restore harmony.

Susan Hunt Deal

In a city where I lived, a local high school has a "Clash Day" when students purposely dress in clothes that combine the most outrageous colors and prints imaginable. Once, when celebrating this event with the students, I was hard pressed to find clothes in my wardrobe that clashed, mainly because today we tolerate a much wider diversity in the way we dress.

That got me to thinking about how we determine what sometimes clashes in life in our relations with one another. One explanation might be that clashes develop from a limited understanding of what constitutes harmony.

We see examples in social, family, business, and national arenas where much wider diversity is accommodated today than in the past. Marrying someone from a different ethnic, religious, or racial group is now more accepted in many areas. Men and women are freer to pursue careers and lifestyles based on their interests and skills instead of their gender or age. Also, differing political viewpoints are more accepted now in countries where freedom of thought was formerly rejected.

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